Family, friends, the police force and the public this afternoon paid their last respects to PC Dennis Sammut, 53, who lost his life in a traffic fatality on Wednesday.

PC Sammut was driving a police car which crashed into an oncoming cement trailer in Għargħur bypass. The autopsy yesterday concluded that he died of a ruptured artery and a fractured spine.

His funeral Mass was held at St Helen's Basilica in Birkirkara. The coffin was carried by colleagues in the force.

PC Sammut, who lived with his wife and two children in Birkirkara, joined the police force 30 years ago and spent the last 15 working at the Naxxar police station.

At the time of the crash he was responding to a call.

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